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I'd like to meet:

Looking to make contacts to make more movies. I have projects I'm working on at the moment, but I won't object to helping out others on their productions, whether it be student, independent, big budget, you name it!

Music:

Against Me, Beck, David Bowie, The Cars, Johnny Cash, The Clash, The Cramps, The Cure, Devo, Dropkick Murphys, The Eyeliners, Faith No More, Flametrick Subs, Flogging Molly, Garbage, HorrorPops, Billy Idol, Journey, The Kinks, Legendary Shack Shakers, Less Than Jake, Mazzy Star, Nashville Pussy, The Pixies, Portishead, Ramones, Rancid, Real McKenzies, Reel Big Fish, The Reverend Horton Heat, The Rentals, The Sex Pistols, The Smiths/Morrissey, The Smugglers, Social Distortion/Mike Ness, The Specials, Talking Heads, They Might Be Giants, Throw Rag, Tiger Army, The Von Ehrics, The Who, Wesley Willis

Movies:

Where to begin? Filmmakers I like:

Paul Thomas Anderson (Hard Eight, Magnolia) Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic) Gregg Araki (Mysterious Skin, Doom Generation, Nowhere) Dario Argento (Suspiria, Demons, Demons 2) Darren Aronofsky (Pie, Requiem For a Dream) Roger Avary (Killing Zoe, Rules of Attraction) Clive Barker (Hellraiser, Nightbreed) Paul Bartel (Eating Raoul, Death Race 2000) Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, Leon) Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Shallow Grave) Coen Brothers (Blood Simple, Fargo, Miller's Crossing) Sophia Coppola (Lost in Translation, Marie Antoinette) Don Coscorelli (Phantasm series, Bubba Ho-Tep) Alex Cox (Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Repo Man) David Cronenberg (Shivers, Videodrome, History of Violence) John Carpenter (The Thing, Escape From New York) Joe Dante (Pirhana, The Howling) Guillermo Del Toro (Cronos, Hellboy, Pan's Labrynth) Brian DePalma (The Fury, Body Double, Scarface) Lucio Fulci (The Beyond, Zombie) Terry Gilliam (Time Bandits, Brazil) Christopher Guest (Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show) early Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator, From Beyond) early Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & 2, Poltergeist) early John Hughes (Breakfast Club, Sixteen Candles) Peter Jackson (LOTR, Bad Taste, Dead Alive) Jim Jarmusch (Dead Man, Ghost Dog, Strangers on a Train) Jean-Pierre Jeunet (City of Lost Children, Delicatessen) Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation.) Stanley Kubrick (The Shining, Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory) John Landis (American Werewolf in London, Innocent Blood) Richard Linklater (Waking Life, Slacker) Sergio Leone (Man With No Name Trilogy, Once Upon a Time in the West) David Lynch (Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Lost Highway) Dan O'Bannon (Return of the Living Dead) Alexander Payne (Sideways, About Schmidt, Election) Roman Polanski (The Tenant, Fearless Vampire Killers) Bill Plympton (I Married a Strange Person) Sam Raimi (Evil Dead Trilogy, Darkman) Robert Rodriguez (Planet Terror, Sin City, From Dusk Till Dawn) George A. Romero (Living Dead Series, Martin) John Sayles (Brother From Another Planet, Lone Star) Martin Scorcese (King of Comedy '83, After Hours, The Departed) early Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Legend) Steven Soderbergh (The Limey, sex lies and videotape) Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Reservoir Dogs, Death Proof) lotsa Troma flicks (Sgt. Kabukiman, Cannibal!, Terror Firmer) John Waters (Desperate Living, Polyester, Cecil B. Demented) Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz) Terry Zwigoff (Crumb, Ghost World)

Television:

I watch The Simpsons or anything Adult Swim, when I can. Thas bout it.

Books:

Elmore Leonard is a must. I'd like to get into others, but I find myself preoccupied with...

Heroes:

...the comic books. Duality, morals, it's all there. Some people may scoff at reading a magazine with a lot of pictures, but there are some really good stories out there (and they sort of taught me how to storyboard my movies). I relate to the Silver Surfer quite a bit. So, yeah, imma geek, deal with it.